Jason Stanley, newly named as the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy, focuses his research on the philosophy of language, epistemology, action theory, and social and political philosophy.Jason StanleyAfter receiving his B.A. from the State University...
Stefan Simon, conservation scientist and inaugural director of the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, will present a lecture titled “Are We Losing Our Past or Our Future? — Sustainable Preservation of Cultural Heritage.”The lecture,...
The Edith Wharton papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library contain about 50,000 items, including the author’s voluminous correspondence, drafts of her short stories and essays, and manuscripts of most her novels, including “The House of...
Otto F. Ege, an Ohio-based scholar and book dealer, made a controversial practice of dismantling medieval and Renaissance manuscripts and selling the individual leaves for profit during the first half of the last century.Among the Ege acquisitions is this...
A tough question was asked of the panelists who took part in the Veterans Day discussion “From Rifles to Laptops: Combat Veterans Covering Conflicts”: Why — after seeing firsthand the horrors of war — would anyone want to risk his or her life to write...
Ada Ferrer, professor of history and Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University, has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her book “Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution” (Cambridge...